450221 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 21-02-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450221 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 21-02-1945

From Henk's List -
WAAF
UK
MOCKFORD, Dorothy May - LACW - 2029168 - WAAF - Brighton (The Downs) Cemetery, Sussex.
THORNE, Betty Kathleen - LACW - 440710 - WAAF - Llanharan & Peterston-Super-Montem Joint Cemetery, Glamorganshire.

UK
MALCOLM, John - AC1c - 7999970 - RAFVR - Tranent New Cemetery, East Lothian.
McCONKEY, Hugh - Sgt - 525942 - RAFVR - Esclusham (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Denbighshire.
MILLS, Edwin - AC1c - 1881753 - RAFVR - Watford Cemetery, Hertfordshire.
POTTER, George Edward - LAC - 1202465 - RAFVR - Bristol ( Greenbank ) Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
WARE, David Victor - AC2c - 949941 - RAFVR - Hull Western Cemetery, Yorkshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

EGYPT
AMZALAK, Ernest Abner - F/S - 641359 - RAF - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
CLOUGH, Frederick Kenneth - Sgt - 1625850 - RAFVR - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
CURTIS, Donald - AC1c - 1307802 - RAFVR - Alexandria (Chatby) Military & War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
GIRLING, Robert - Sgt - 1591620 - RAFVR - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
HUMPHRIES, Philip Emanuel - Sgt - 1605873 - RAFVR - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
MORGAN, Albert Daniel - Sgt - 2215928 - RAFVR - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
NORFOLK, Stephen Turner - Sgt (A/G) - 1042063 - RAFVR - Alexandria (Chatby) Military & War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
THACKER, William Charles - Sgt - 2207701 - RAFVR - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

MYANNMAR
WARREN, Leslie William - AC2c - 3009704 - RAFVR - Taukkyan War cemetery, Myanmar. [ Could not find in "Unsung Heroes" ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
MOCKFORD, Dorothy May - LACW - registered in Brighton.
THORNE, Betty Kathleen - LACW - registered in Bridgend in the 2nd Quarter.
MALCOLM, John - AC1 - not Eng/Wales?.
McCONKEY, Hugh - Sgt - registered in Nuneaton.
MILLS, Edwin - AC1 - registered in Biggleswade.
POTTER, George Edward - LAC - registered in Bristol.
WARE, David Victor - AC2 - registered in Holderness.

EGYPT
AMZALAK, Ernest Abner - F/S - possibly killed whilst flying in Liberator VI, EV903 of No 1675 HCU, which crashed after a fin broke off following excessive manoeuvring.
CLOUGH, Frederick Kenneth - Sgt - see Amzalak.
CURTIS, Donald - AC1 - RAF Gianaclis, possibly also EV903.
GIRLING, Robert - Sgt - see Amzalak.
HUMPHRIES, Philip Emanuel - Sgt - see Amzalak.
MORGAN, Albert Daniel - Sgt - see Amzalak.
NORFOLK, Stephen Turner - Sgt (A/G) - see Amzalak.
THACKER, William Charles - Sgt - see Amzalak.

MYANNMAR
WARREN, Leslie William - AC2 - 221 Group Comm Sqn

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

EGYPT.

641359 Sgt Ernest Abner AMZALAK RAF.

641359 Sgt Ernest Abner AMZALAK RAF, was aboard 1675 HCU Liberator B.VI KG824 when it caught fire in the air and exploded 4 miles north-east of Abu Sueir during a training flight.

See:
Failed To Return - Airmen Died In The Second World War 1939-45 - The Roll of Honour of the British, Commonwealth and Allied Air Services. Part 2: A-B.
Hobson,Chris (Comp.).
Uckfield:Naval & Military Press,2018.
p.123

Can't speak for the others, I don't have Hobson's other volumes, yet!

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Col

This is another one of Hobson's I have a problem with as Amzalak is shown in CWGC as dying on 21 Feb but KG824 was lost on 22 Feb?

Amzalak is also on the Alamein Memorial as are the rest of the crew of KG903, whilst those lost on KG824 are all buried?

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Betty Kathleen Thorne 440710, was struck by a van on 27th November 1943, whilst serving as a waitress with Bomber Command at RAF Riccall. Severely injured with a fractured lumbar spine, concussions and abrasions she was admitted to the Seacroft EMS hospital, Leeds and medically discharged from the WAAF on 10th April 1944. Paralysed, She died in the Mid Glamorgan hospital, Bridgend from exhaustion caused by trophic ulcers

[jonheyworth]

Dorothy May Mockford 2029168 , a balloon operator in 901 / 905 AAF squadron attached to Number 3 balloon centre at Champion Hill, Denmark Hill, London died in Brighton borough sanatorium at 10:00 hours of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Stanislaw Dyszkant P 706211, died in RAF Hospital Ely, of acute nephritis

[jonheyworth]

Hugh McConkey 525942 , was seriously injured in an MT accident, dying in Nuneaton EMS hospital

[jonheyworth]

Edward Augustine Sizer 1357902 , was travelling back to the unit from an RAF rest camp at Feni in an American lorry when it overturned, fatally injuring him and injuring 4 other airmen

[jonheyworth]

Clifford Crowe 941719 , attached to 1 ( C ) OTU, was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Northallerton on 9 July, where he died of uranaemia with his Wife, Mrs. C. Crowe, at his bedside